Last week I was trying to demonstrate accessing Azure Table Storage after I upgraded to the Azure SDK 1.3. During the demo I kept getting the exception “SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfigurationSetting can be used” even though I had written this code and my demos all worked fine …

Thanks for attending the Azure Jumpstart and Accelerator events in Dublin and Belfast (also the Galway Live Meeting). Here are the list of links from my presentations: Azure HOL (August labs = VS2008, November Labs = VS2010) http://bit.ly/d16e3M (Update: 7 Jan 2011 : Looks like this link does not give the 2008 option …

Having just returned from PDC in LA, here are my highlights from the week. Windows Azure - this is the OS for the cloud. Microsoft have learnt from their experiences and created a secure, scalable platform for developing and deploying your web applications. .Net Services - Are a set of services hosted in the cloud to …

Thanks to everyone who sat and listened to my presentations on BizTalk RFID, ESB and ISB. I hope that you found them useful. As promised here are the links: Biztalk RFID : http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/rfid.aspx Blue C Sushi : http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201405 ESB Guidance …

What is Oslo all about? According to Microsoft's Burley Kawasaki at Architect Insight, Oslo is a new way to build connected applications where services are extended from client to cloud and models become the mainstream part of development. Oslo is not a product but a way of working. …

Here is part 2 of my MVC/Windows workflow example. Part 1 created the basic MVC application and had a basic model, part 2 adds the work flow element to the model. [PDF] [source]

Scrum is a process to help with the day to day running of projects. From my experience of running projects using scrum I have written an overview document. This is probably not pure scrum but it works and has practical advise. The overview is written from the team leaders perspective and may be useful to new team …

Developing software is complex but breaking the problem down into smaller tasks makes the job easier. It is OK if you are the person who defines the work, splits it down and then completes it yourself as you fully understand what the problem is and when the problem is solved. This is not normally the way it works in …

Having read the article in MSDN magazine about the Microsoft MVC, I decided to have a go myself, I also though it would be a good idea to try to combine this with Windows Workflow and see if I can control the order of pages based upon the state of a workflow state machine. In Part 1 I build the MVC application with a …

In this ever growing connected world of computer automation the user interface is becoming more and more critical to the success of a business and the success of a business computer system. The world is moving towards a service-based architecture with the web being the conduit to link all these services together. Ease …